There is nothing hard about 3D rotation, at least not for people successfully building a 3D open world game of that scope. Their characters can turn and you have a direction, there is no difference to walking in that sense.

If anything, assuming this is about NPCs, they didn't want to create animations for that and just turning them mid animation looked stupid.

As for the PC, automatically turning the player is honestly a bad idea in first person. It can be disorienting for some players.

[–] pulido@lemmings.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As for thr PC, automatically turning the player is honestly a bad idea in first person. It can be disorienting for some palyers.

I'm referring to 3rd person. You can't see the character model in first person.

NPCs don't have a camera following them, so they can't run in a different direction than what it's facing.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

These games are meant to be played in 1st person and 3rd person is just an after thought. In this case, yes, that's maybe just laziness or more likely they didn't have time for low priority stuff.

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